From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:49:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] replace: use a GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS env variable
Message-ID: <200911180749.47243.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B026DE8.9070905@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On mardi 17 novembre 2009, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Christian Couder venit, vidit, dixit 17.11.2009 06:11:
> > This environment variable is set when the --no-replace-objects
> > flag is passed to git, and it is read when other environment
> > variables are read.
> >
> > It is useful for example for scripts, as the git commands used in
> > them can now be aware that they must not read replace refs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
>
> Tested-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
>
> :) This works, thanks, as well as the gitk patch 2/2, which is difficult
> to cover by test scripts. Some OSes (or rather certain setenv/putenv
> variants) have problems distinguishing an unset variable from an empty
> one. I think we've worked around this, but avoiding it is safer, as J6t
> pointed out.

Ok.

Thanks for testing,
Christian.